The Connie Hogarth Center for Social Action, based at Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY, works to help the next generation of college-educated activists acquire the practical skills and knowledge necessary for future work in social change.

Thursday, February 26, 2009

SPRING ’09 SEMINAR SERIES

CELEBRATING THE CONNIE HOGARTH CENTER FOR SOCIAL ACTION’S 10TH ANNIVERSARY!

Thurs, March 19 7:15 pm - To be Announced.Thurs,March 26th 7:15pm - Ending the Wars—Iraq and Afghanistan. Working for Peace-Israel and Palestine.The Role of the UN. BEN CHITTY, Veterans for Peace (invited); PHYLLIS BENNIS, Institute for Policy Studies Fellow.

The Connie Hogarth Center for Social Action

The Center’s mission is to help the next generation of college-educated activists acquire, in the course of their undergraduate training, the practical skills and knowledge necessary for work in some field of social change. Recently retired after 23 years as Executive Director of the WestchesterPeople’s Action Coalition (WESPAC), Connie Hogarth is recognized throughout the metropolitan area and the nation as a leading activist in various struggles for peace and justice.

The Center runs a lecture series and a mentoring program, supports student research and publishes a student-edited journal devoted to social change, helps locate internships and employment, and runs workshops in public speaking, the use of computers, fund raising, media access and organizing.

About Connie Hogarth

Connie Hogarth is a lifetime peace, justice, anti-nuclear and environmental activist. As co-founder and executive director of Westchester People’s Action Coalition (WESPAC) for 23 years (she has been executive director emerita since 1996), she was actively organizing for the shut-down of Indian Point nuclear power plants. Ms. Hogarth is a current member of the Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition (IPSEC), and continues to work for the shut-down of Indian Point. In 1998, Manhattanville College established the Connie Hogarth Center for Social Action, which Ms. Hogarth now directs, dedicated to training students to move from academics to social activism. She is a founding member and serves on the steering committee of the Climate Crisis Coalition in Lenox, MA. She has been active in the local NAACP, the Mid-Hudson Progressive Alliance, Lower Hudson Valley Civil Liberties Union and the Beacon Sloop Club. She serves as a committee person on the Fishkill Democratic Committee and is a member of the Dutchess County Democratic Committee.